Another Planet

Author : Stephen Savage
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780823441471

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The Babysitter from Another Planet by Stephen Savage Pdf

The kids are in for a treat when their parents leave them with a babysitter who is truly out of this world--an alien! A Golden Duck Notable Picture Book When their parents go out for the evening, a brother and sister are left with a babysitter unlike any they've ever had before--an alien from another planet! But even though she seems a little strange, the kids quickly see that this babysitter can make anything fun...even brushing their teeth and doing their homework. This story is literally E.T. meets Mary Poppins, and as soon as the Babysitter from Another Planet is gone, the kids can't wait for her to come back again. With references to everything from '50s Science Fiction movies (sure to produce a chuckle from knowing parents) to ET, bestselling author Stephen Savage has produced a visual and verbal tour de force that will have kids begging for more. An ILA-CBC Children's Choice! A CBC Children's Choice Book Awards Finalist

Author : Tracey Thorn
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781786892577

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Another Planet by Tracey Thorn Pdf

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE 'Tender, wise and funny' Sunday Express 'Beautifully observed, deadly funny' Max Porter Before becoming an acclaimed musician and writer, Tracey Thorn was a typical teenager: bored and cynical, despairing of her aspirational parents. Her only comfort came from house parties and the female pop icons who hinted at a new kind of living. Returning to the scene of her childhood, Thorn takes us beyond the bus shelters, the pub car parks and the weekly discos, to the parents who wanted so much for their children and the children who wanted none of it. With great wit and insight, Thorn reconsiders the Green Belt post-war dream so many artists have mocked, and yet so many artists have come from.

Author : Bill Watterson
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 0836218620

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Weirdos from Another Planet! by Bill Watterson Pdf

Presents a collection of "Calvin and Hobbes" cartoons.

Author : Mindy Schanback
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Camps
ISBN : 043989543X

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Princess from Another Planet by Mindy Schanback Pdf

Fourteen-year-old Gracie Quicksilver escapes her impoverished and unconventional life by impersonating her rich cousin at an exclusive summer camp until a series of weird events convinces her that her mother's delusions about being the deposed queen of the distant planet Pannadeau just might be true.

Author : Lou Antonelli
Publisher : WordFire +ORM
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781614754954

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Another Girl, Another Planet by Lou Antonelli Pdf

In an alternate 1980s, a Mars colony bureaucrat finds himself battling corruption, conspiracy, and undercover androids in this sci-fi thriller. Few people believe Dave Shuster’s stories about the red planet. But now government agents are eager to discuss a photo showing a graveyard on its surface, complete with crosses. Shuster claims that he once lived on Mars . . . in an alternate timeline. According to his story, he was a low-level bureaucrat in the administration of a joint US/Soviet colony. And things did not go well. During his posting, Shuster was caught up in a murder mystery involving the illegal use of robot technology. The Cold War had taken a very different turn—largely influenced by Admiral Robert Heinlein. When Shuster arrived on Mars in 1985, he was thrown into a power vacuum, force to fight a rogue industrialist with some help from unlikely sources in a society infiltrated by unnervingly realistic androids. This is his testimony.

Author : Jean Kearns Miller
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781410734327

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Women from Another Planet? by Jean Kearns Miller Pdf

Mention the word autism and the room suddenly turns silent. Its the dreaded A word. Peoples attention turns to late night TV public service ads declaring that autistic children are imprisoned by autism and need curing at all cost. Recent autobiographies have helped dispel this dire description by suggesting that autism is not a prison and that the door is unlocked and youre free to come in. Women from Another Planet? moves beyond these autistic life stories in important ways. Its a collection of stories and conversations, all of them by women on the autism spectrum who speak candidly, insightfully, and often engagingly about both their gender in terms of their autism and their autism in terms of their gender. It is written not just for parents and professionals, like the other works, but also to those women still searching for ways to understand the unnamed difference they live with, as well as the wider audience of discerning readers. If you enter the unlocked door of these Women from Another Planet? you may end up with a question mark or two about your planet. Is normalcy really all its cracked up to be?

Author : Laurent de Brunhoff
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1419703420

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Babar Visits Another Planet by Laurent de Brunhoff Pdf

Babar and his family are abducted and taken by rocket ship to an unknown planet where the residents are very hospitable and there are many interesting sights to see.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Learning Media Ltd
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0478247575

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I'm Moving to Another Planet by Anonim Pdf

Author : Elinor Burkett
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002-08-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 0060505850

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Another Planet by Elinor Burkett Pdf

With a novelist's eye, Elinor Burkett takes readers behind the school system's closed doors, revealing a world of mixed messages, manufactured myths, and political hype. In the wake of school shootings across the country, one question haunted America: What is going wrong inside our nation's schools? To find out, award-winning journalist Elinor Burkett spent nine months -- from the opening pep rally to graduation day -- in a suburban Minneapolis high school. She attended classes, hung out with students, listened to parents, and joined teachers on the front lines. She soon discovered that, post-Columbine, fears about loners and misfits, "Smoker's New Year" (a pot holiday), "Zero Tolerance" policies, and school lockdowns have become as much a part of a teen's high school experience as dating and Clearasil. But Burkett goes even deeper and makes some startling conclusions in this poignant exposé of the real problems facing educators, parents, and the children they try to teach.

Author : François Forget,François Costard,Philippe Lognonné
Publisher : Praxis
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 0387489258

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Planet Mars by François Forget,François Costard,Philippe Lognonné Pdf

This book gives a new insight of Mars by adopting an original outline based on history rather than on subtopic (atmosphere, surface, interior). It focuses on the past and present evolution of Mars and also incorporates all the recent results from the space missions of Mars Express, Spirit and Opportunity. This book goes to the heart of current planetological research, and illustrates it with many beautiful images. The authors describe the magnificent scenery on Mars. The authors introduce a new world and reveal the workings of the planet Mars, and they describe current research to prepare for future missions to Mars.

Author : Szymon Laks
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0810118025

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Music of Another World by Szymon Laks Pdf

Translated from the 1948 French edition. A remarkable memoir of the Polish composer Szymon Laks. While interned at the Auschwitz extermination camp, Laks became kappelmeister of the Auschwitz band. With wit and self-detachment, he records the grotesque phenomena of music among the crematoria. Paper edition (unseen), $10.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Norine Dresser
Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : UVA:X002301058

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I Felt Like I was from Another Planet by Norine Dresser Pdf

This teacher's resource book for teaching process writing has 15 multicultural student-written stories of cultural adjustment, showing how the problem could be or was solved. The unit for each story includes warm-up questions, a vocabulary list , "headlines," follow-up questions, draft student revision, writer's checklist, and evaluation.

Author : John Corbett
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Music
ISBN : 0822314738

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Extended Play by John Corbett Pdf

In Extended Play, one of the country's most innovative music writers conducts a wide-ranging tour through the outer limits of contemporary music. Over the course of more than twenty-five portraits, interviews, and essays, John Corbett engages artists from lands as distant as Sweden, Siberia, and Saturn. With a special emphasis on African American and European improvisers, the book explores the famous and the little known, from John Cage and George Clinton to Anthony Braxton and Sun Ra. Employing approaches as diverse as the music he celebrates, Corbett illuminates the sound and theory of funk and rap, blues and jazz, contemporary classical, free improvisation, rock, and reggae. Using cultural critique and textual theory, Corbett addresses a broad spectrum of issues, such as the status of recorded music in postmodern culture, the politics of self-censorship, experimentation, and alternativism in the music industry, and the use of metaphors of space and madness in the work of African American musicians. He follows these more theoretically oriented essays with a series of extensive profiles and in-depth interviews that offer contrasting and complementary perspectives on some of the world's most creative musicians and their work. Included here are more than twenty original photographs as well as a meticulously annotated discography. The result is one of the most thoughtful, and most entertaining, investigations of contemporary music available today.

Author : Will Eisner
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393328127

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Life On Another Planet by Will Eisner Pdf

This powerful graphic novel confirms Will Eisner as a master of the genre. In this graphic novel, Will Eisner’s pen cuts an expansive swath through all aspects of the human condition. Life on Another Planet places American life within a broader perspective, chronicling the lives of scientists, politicians, spies, and nobodies as they come to terms with the discovery of extraterrestrial life: in reaching out to other galaxies, Eisner’s characters ultimately find themselves focusing within.

Author : Benjamin Lumley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Mars (Planet)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105213333268

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Another World, Or, Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah by Benjamin Lumley Pdf